What's on the Line?: Exploring the Significance of Gendered Everyday Resistance Within the Transnational Call Center Workplace. Issue 6 (1st November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Redden, Stephanie M.
• Is Part Of: Globalizations. Volume 13:Issue 6(2016)
• Page Start: 846
• Page End: 860
• Publication Date: 2016-11-01
• Subjects: everyday IPE -- feminist IPE -- everyday worker resistance -- gendered resistance -- transnational call centers -- gendered labor; Globalization -- Periodicals; 327.17
• DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2016.1175180
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1474-7731

Abstract

Abstract: Recent efforts on the part of International Political Economy (IPE) scholars to place an emphasis on the importance of everyday spaces and actors in analyses of the global political economy have largely tended to overlook the significance of gender. However, gender and other intersecting factors serve to inform everyday actions, which—as 'everyday IPE' scholars suggest—impact the international. Therefore I present a feminist everyday politics of the global economy (or FEPGE) approach that aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationships between gender, everyday actions (in particular, resistance), and the international. Drawing on data from interviews with former transnational call center workers in Ontario, Canada, this approach is used to explore the significance of gendered everyday acts of worker resistance. I argue that along with the 'feminization of labor' within the industry, it may also be necessary to discuss the 'feminization of resistance'.